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Male. Primary School pupil at Stewartby. b. 07.09.1994 (Recorded at school. Background noises of other pupils) Side A (00 mins)Learning at school about the history of the brickworks in Stewartby. Speaking to former brickworkers and their wives about the heyday of the brickworks. Some of the clay pits have become lakes. There was once an outdoor swimming pool for Stewartby villagers, built by London Brick Co. Model village commissioned by Sir Malcolm Stewart, Director of LBC. Also learned about the prehistory of the area, when the area was under the sea. (05 mins)Likes living in Stewartby. Playing with friends. Using the local park. Visiting the village social club with her parents at the weekend. Bingo. Disco. Pool table. (10 mins)People from outside the village can also attend the club. Cycles around the lake with her Father. Visits the Millenium Country Park Visitor Centre for a drink. She will be sad when the last brickyard chimneys come down. She quite likes the smell of the exhaust fumes. She saw the last chimney to be demolished when it happened. The explosion was frightening. She learned to swim when she holidayed in Minorca. She wishes that they still had a swimming pool in the village (the earlier one was closed own and demolished). She now goes swimming at the Oasis (water leisure centre) or Robinson's Swimming Pool, both in Bedford. Prince Philip (husband of Queen Elizabeth II) was presented with a dinosaur fossil when he visited the Stewartby brickworks in 1963. (15 mins)Recounts some of the facts she has learned in project work at school about the local brickworks. She wouldn't want to work in the brickyards; the work is too hard. (17 mins)End of Side A (No recording on Side B) END OF INTERVIEW Original Interview 17 mins

15 December 2003

From: 1994 To: 2003

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Stewartby Junior School, HISTORY, brick worker, clay, swimming, Sir Malcolm Stewart Trust, LEISURE ACTIVITIES, cycling, chimneys, pollution, fossils, STEWARTBY